Vapor-bath cabinet.



H. Y. WILSON.

VAPOR BATH CABINET.

APPLICATION HLBD 001212, 1914.

ll28,5 Patented Feb.16,1915.

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.l' ON, OF WATERLOO, IOWA, ASSIGNOB 0F @NEI-HALF T0 TULIUS G.

JOHNSON, OF SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA."

varon-BATH CABINET.I

Specification of Letters Patent.

:Patented nel. ie, i915.

Application mea october 1a`1a14. serial No. 866,263.-

vapor-bath cabinets, and the object of my improvement isto provide forsuch a cabinet inclosed means for thoroughly mixing and distributingfluids derived from independent sources of supply. This object I haveaccomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed,and which oare illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is an upper plan view of my improved vapor-bath cabinet, withthe cover and. inner rack thereof removed, and parts broken away tobetter disclose the interior construction. Fig. 2 is an upper plan viewof said cabinet with the cover only removed, the inner rack in place.Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section of the cabinet and its contents,including the hinged cover therefor, the casing part and its contentsbeing sectioned on the line (1e-b of said Fig. 1 and looking in thedirection of the arrow.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout theseveral views The casing 16 is provided with a hinged arched closure 27,and is supported on the legs 31. The small opening in said closure has asliding cover 28 to permit the condition of the interior vapor andltemperature to be examined when desired. Shelves 17 are secured alongthe inner longitudinal walls of the casing 16 at a distance above itsbottom 15. The cross pieces 21 of the substantially horizontal rack madeup of the spaced longitudinal slats 22 are seated removably on saidshelves. At oneend 24 of the casing, a partis cut away from the upperedge thereof down as far as said rack to permit of a patients headpassing therethrough to rest on a hinged and bracketed shelf 19 on theoutside of the casing. The end 24 is cutaway at one side to provide anopening communicating with said other opening when the hinged flap partof said 0nd is swung outwardly. The upper part 1S of the one side wallof said casing is hinged thereto to swing outwardly, and the hingedparts 18 and 2O may be moved outwardly for the convenience of thepatient in entering the casmg. When the hinged shelf 19 isclosed upagainst the end 24 of the casing,

a small opening is left, which, however, is

covered by means of a depending curtain 25. Underneath the rack 22 1nsaid casing, and supported on legs 29 resting on theybottom '15 is amixing and distributing device for vapor. This device is composed of amixing chamber v7 with branching conduits 8 and 9 extending fromopposite sides thereof, then bent around to extend parallel with theinner longitudinal walls of the casing, and then bentv again to beunited at their left-hand ends. An exhaust pipe '10 leads from themiddle of the cross connection of said pipes, extending longitudinallydown the middle of the casing an'd then is angularly bent to passthrough the wall of the casing, the outer end being provided with astop-cock 14.

The mixing chamber 7 is located in the .right hand end of the casing,its left-hand wall 7 belng arched. The interior 6 ofsaid s@ chamber isin communication with receptacles 1 and 2 without the casing by means ofthe elbows 3 and 4, respectively, which pass into a Y-coupling 4. Themain part of said coupling extends through the wall of g5 said `casingto have its open end seated inside l of said vchamber 6 medially, and soas to partially. cross the interspacelbetween the openlngs lnto thepipes 8 and 9. Stop-cocks 11 and 12 are seated in said pipesyadjacen'tto Q0 said mixing chamber.

The receptacle 1 may be in the form of a conical funnel open at thebottomand placed over a gas flame or some other heating means adaptedtocreate a current of hot air to pass up into said funnel and throughth'e elbow 3, and the Y 4 into the mixing chamber 6. The receptacle 2may be formed to receive a quantity of water, which may be medicated ifdesired, said receptacle being we manner in which the respective hot airand m5 vapor currents meet atan angle in said Y and become partiallymixed together there. The mingled iiuids then pass against the archedleft-hand wall 7 of the chamber`6 and are .further mixed before passinginto the pipes 8- and 9. Since the left-hand end of said Y extendspartially through the v and vapor are bailled therebyandpreventedchamber 6, the mingling currents of hot air from movingmore'directly into the pipes 8 and 9. The mingled fluids issue from thesmall openings 13 in the conduits 8, 9 and 10 and fill the interior ofthe cabinet with a medicated heated vapor enveloping the patient Whoinclines -upon the rack 22, [with his or her head passedwithout thecasing through theo ening 21 torest -uponthe bracketed 4shel 19.Thef'proportions of hot air and vapor in said pipes may be regulated or.varied as desired by means of the stop cocks 11 and 12.- Any condensedmoisture upon the bottom 1 5 will drain o' through an outlet tube 30.

Having described my. invention, what I claim -as new, and desire tosecure'by Letters Patent, is

vice, said mixing device-'comprising primary and. secondary mixingchambers, the prl-y ent sources ofsupply-and entering said primarychamber at their primary chamber having an open 4delivery end extendinginto the secondary chamber, and said Vysecondary chamber havingdelivery-openings at its op-' posite ends atv places out ofline and setback relativelyv to the delivery end of --sa'id primar f betwieen saiddeliveryend and said delivery openings.` v k 3. In a. vapor-bath lcabinet, I a casing, a loop shaped conduit therein having` a'pluralityof relatively small orifices therealong, a mixing chamber included insaid loop. and

u, .in communication therewith at opposite sides, and a tube passed intosaid chamber medially and interruptedly with relation to thecommunications of the chamber 4With said loop, said tube being incommunication With independent sources of supply.

4. In a vapor-bath cabinet, a casing, a loop shaped conduit therein, anexhaust pipe leading from one Vend of said conduit through said casing,a mixing chamber communicating on opposite sides with theoppositelylocated parts of said loop, said conduit having small,perforations therealong, and a tube projected into said mixingchamber'medially partially across the openings 1. AIn a vapor-bathcabinet, a. mixingv de-l Supply,

' U-shaped cabinet,a mixing de'- junction point, the

central part of saidl chamber to produce interrupted pathsfluidsintroduced thereby,

of the conduit ends into the chamber to their passage into said conduit.

a vapor-bath cabinet, a casing, a mixing l,chamber therein, a tubeextended into the chamber beyond the inner wall thereof, pipes leadingfrom opposite ends of said chamber and having longitudinally alinedorifices, said'tube passing across and baiiiing the passage of fiuidsinto said orifces, and means for controlling the liow of a fluid fromsaid mixing chamber through said ipes.

6. n a'vapo-bath cabinet, a casing, and vapor distributing means locatedin said casing, comprising a U-shaped tube arranged horizontally nearthe inner walls of the casing, a mixing chamber into Whose oppositesides the ends of said tube open,.said4 tube having relatively smallorifices ther'ealon'g Said mixing-chamber-being wider than said tube andbeing in communication 'With'tfg" forked conduit, the conduit passingintoithef chamber past the open ends of said tube, which forks leadtoindependent sources of an exhaust-pipe extending fromthe of the crossconnection of' the pipe through said casing, and means for controllingthe How of mingled fluids in said U-shaped pipe and said exhaust-pipe.

7. In a vapor-bath cabinet, an endless conduit in the form of alengthened approximately horizontal loop having a plurality of smallorifices therealong,l said loop including at the. middle of one' of itsshorter parts a widened form With the conduit enteri the middles of itsopposite walls, and a tu e passed into the outer end Wall of the widenedpart to extend past the conduitopenings. 8. In a vapor-bath cabinet, anendless conduit in the form of. a len middle small orifices therealong,said loop includa widened partfor'ming a substantially rectangularchamber havingits inner end /wall made convex outwardly, and a tubeprojected through the outer end Wallof said chamber medially to passthereinto of said.v conduit.to

baille. different delivering them against said convex Wall beforeitheirentry into both conduit openings. a

Signed atWaterloo, Iowa, this 24th day of Sept.- 1914. i

' HARVEY Y. WILSON.-

lVi-tnesses: i

W. H. BRUNN, G. C. KENNEDY.

part of substantially rectangular and Imix them by hened approxiv 5*.' fmately horizontal-loop` having a plurality of the `line of openings

